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... themselves the • Widow - Club . This club confifts of nine experien- ced dames , who take their places , once a - week , round a large oval table . • I. Mrs. President is a person who has difpofed of fix hufbands , and is now determined ...
... themselves the • Widow - Club . This club confifts of nine experien- ced dames , who take their places , once a - week , round a large oval table . • I. Mrs. President is a person who has difpofed of fix hufbands , and is now determined ...
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... themselves is this , to cry up the plea- fures of a fingle life upon all occafions , in order to • deter the rest of their fex from marriage , and in- grofs the whole male world to themselves . They are obliged , when any one makes love ...
... themselves is this , to cry up the plea- fures of a fingle life upon all occafions , in order to • deter the rest of their fex from marriage , and in- grofs the whole male world to themselves . They are obliged , when any one makes love ...
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... themselves when they have nothing elfe in them . There is one kind of egotifts , which is very common in the world , though I do not re- member that any writer has taken notice of them ; I mean thofe empty , conceited fellows , who ...
... themselves when they have nothing elfe in them . There is one kind of egotifts , which is very common in the world , though I do not re- member that any writer has taken notice of them ; I mean thofe empty , conceited fellows , who ...
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... themselves which of them thould ftep into his place . Nay , I have known a Blank continue fo long in one of these vacant pofts , ( for fuch it is to be reckoned all the time a Blank is in it ) that he has grown too formi- ⚫dable and ...
... themselves which of them thould ftep into his place . Nay , I have known a Blank continue fo long in one of these vacant pofts , ( for fuch it is to be reckoned all the time a Blank is in it ) that he has grown too formi- ⚫dable and ...
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... I cannot help obferving , how thofe about me fuffer themselves to be blinded by prejudice and inclination ; how readily they pronounce on every D 3 man's man's character , which they can give in two words No. 564. THE SPECTATOR . 41.
... I cannot help obferving , how thofe about me fuffer themselves to be blinded by prejudice and inclination ; how readily they pronounce on every D 3 man's man's character , which they can give in two words No. 564. THE SPECTATOR . 41.
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